Redstate

I'm afraid that humanity is a beast of routine, long lasting civilizations tend to go through the stages.

Barbarism, Semi-Imperial Barbarism, Golden Age, Post Golden Age, Destruction.

A people that long enjoys the benefits of civilization, gradually begin to accept those fruits simply as a given. To often they forget that freedom contrary to the founders belief, has never been a god given right or a natural right.

Freedom was an abstract concept that was voiced by brave men, and has been defended with great sacrifice over the years. With the sword and the pen.

The Western World is finding itself besieged by barbarians at the gate, and is resorting to discourse usually reserved for those at the Golden Age Era to confront those still at the level of Barbarism.

I once had high hopes for the Bush Administration, but I'm afraid idealism has poisoned the Administration, and may have inevitably given our enemies new strength.

I hope criticizing the president doesn't earn me a ban, I'm neither liberal or conservative. I prefer the term Independent, and this is my first comment here.

I would like to make note of one comment in that blog.

But even as that traditional Anglosphere splintered, with Australia coming on side but Canada - sensing no national interest at stake - taking a pass, he did it because he understood the threat that Saddam represented, and because he still believed that Britain had a place in making the world a better and safer place. He believed in an idea of Britain that was larger than Britain’s own national interest: Old think, to say the least, and at any rate, not very European.

I disagree with his analysis about Canada, a country with a military that hardly equals their economy. Personally I give them credit for realizing what a fatal flaw Iraq was, now I hope the discourse can remain civil.

For a country with a large leftist tint, that was a surprisingly pragmatic foreign policy move.

Anyway, I hope that anyone will please inform me if I violate some taboo or unspoken rule here.

The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage.-Niccolò Machiavelli

So are most of the people he governs. When I travel to London, I never tire of tweaking the Brits, its too easy.

My roots are in a country that has the highest rates of religious participation on the continent of Europe. Most churches in the UK have been converted to community centers or socialist housing or some other purpose. Or they're mosques. It's sad, to see grand churches empty whilst soccer stadiums are full.

In Poland, both are jam packed. I am grateful that a UK of yesteryear was a way station for many of my family on the way to safety in the U.S. But that was then. We've pretended and pretended that Blair and his ilk weren't such bad guys because they sided with the U.S. in Iraq.

Well, here it is. Here is the UK and their manhood, and it is cheap indeed.

Iran and the mullahs have made them a laughingstock. Sickening really.